OWC Jellyfish Tower

The OWC Jellyfish Tower matches the ease-of-use and plug-and-play powers of the Mobile and is as powerful as something you’d find in your server room. It’s quiet enough to stand on its own in your edit bay and powerful enough to take on 6+ editors working with 4K media and beyond.

UP TO SIXTEEN 10G/1G

Direct Connections

REMOTE ACCESS

For Growing Teams

120TB-480TB RAW

Raw Storage Capacity

Connectivity: Plug & play, no switch required

The OWC Jellyfish Tower shared storage server can be used with or without a switch. Users can connect directly into one of up to 16 onboard 1GbE or 10GbE ports, or connect to a switch for additional expansion.

Storage: 3 capacity points to choose with and room to grow

The OWC Jellyfish Tower is listed with a raw capacity number and an available capacity number. An available capacity number is what will be represented as the total storage after RAID, performance buffers, and overhead are applied.

HDD Configurations

Performance: Ready for 4K, 8K, and beyond

Get ready to say goodbye to spinning beach balls while your team cranks out content at the speed of thought. The Jellyfish Studio has 3500MB/s of sustained read/write speed to allocate across all of your users.

SETUP & SOFTWARE

SETUP IS SIMPLE

The OWC Jellyfish Tower shared storage server was designed to be unboxed and up and running in under 30 minutes with no prior networking experience required. You will be guided through each step of the setup online, and if you need additional help our support team is only a phone call away.

OWC JELLYFISH MEDIA ENGINE

Leverage the processing power of your OWC Jellyfish to generate proxies for your offline or remote workflows. Access those proxies locally or remotely and link them to your project. Switch to proxy mode in your editing software and enjoy smooth playback no matter your connection speed. OWC Jellyfish Media Engine comes free with your OWC Jellyfish purchase to provide your team with an extra level of flexibility.

OWC JELLYFISH MANAGER

If you’ve never had to manage a server before, OWC designed the Jellyfish Manager for you. If you have managed a server before, you’ll wonder why they weren’t all this intuitive or easy to use.

OWC JELLYFISH CONNECT

We’ve made connecting your Mac to the OWC Jellyfish Tower easier than ever with our patented OWC Jellyfish Connect app for macOS. Just open the app on your computer and get right to work.

OS COMPATIBILITY

The OWC Jellyfish Tower shared storage server is compatible with Mac, Windows, and Linux operating systems and supports a mixed hardware / software environment.

NLE COMPATIBILITY

Work in the NLE, DAW, or VFX software of your choosing, or use them all. OWC’s engineers work closely with Apple, Adobe, and Blackmagic to ensure seamless workflows between your favorite apps.

DEEP SPECS

USERS & CONNECTIVITY

MAXIMUM DIRECT CONNECTIONS

SWITCH REQUIRED

BASE CONFIG.

256GB DDR4 RAM

2TB Read Cache SSD

4TB Dedicated Project/Cache NVMe Pool

2 x 10GbE RJ45 Ports

CONNECTION UPGRADES

ADD 1GbE

ADD 10GbE [RJ45 // SFP+]

ADD 25GbE [QSFP]

STORAGE

RAW CAPACITY

120TB, 240TB, 480TB

AVAILABLE STORAGE SIZE

80TB, 160TB, 320TB

EXPANDABILITY

Add up to 2 additional OWC Jellyfish Tower expansion units anytime over the included 12G HD Mini-SAS port.

PERFORMANCE

AGGREGATE BANDWIDTH

3700MB/s Read

2400MB/s Write

DATA SECURITY

RAID PROTECTION

All OWC Jellyfish utilize ZFS RAID which adds an extra layer of protection to your data since all data and metadata are stored on your pool.

STANDARD RAID Z2

By default, the OWC Jellyfish R24 can sustain the failure of up to 2 hard drives per 8-disk virtual device, up to a maximum simultaneous failure of 6 physical drives per pool.

BACKUP & ARCHIVE

Rsync

Snapshots

PHYSICAL SPECS

DIMENSIONS

Height 27.75 inches

Depth 27 inches

Width 11 inches

Weight ~74 lbs.

FORM FACTOR

Under Desk / Desktop

MAX NOISE LEVEL

~61 Decibels Under Heavy I/O

POWER SUPPLY

1000 Watt

ADDITIONAL SERVER ACCESS

IPMI

USB 3 [x4]

VGA PORT

PROTOCOL SUPPORT

SMB

NFS

sFTP

SSH

MISC.

Integrated DaVinci Resolve Collaborative Database Encryption Options Available

Encryption Options Available